At 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 MTV was introduced to television, but only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it. During this time, the first words that were spoken on MTV was by John Lack say the words, “Ladies and Gentlemen, rock and roll” Also during the launching of MTV it showed Neil Armstrong planting an MTV flag into the moon. Although MTV producers originally planed to use Neil Armstrong’s quote “One small step…” it was declined by Neil’s lawyers, so they switched the quote with a beeping noise. After the introduction MTV played the first music video by The Buggles called “Video killed the radio star.” After the first music video was shown the screen went blank because MTV employees were inserting a tape into the VCR to show the second music video by Pat Benatar with the song called “You better run.” From that day in August things just started to go up for the new and uprising television show MTV....
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"Music Television"The main idea for MTV was to play music videos ALL DAYEVERYDAYIt was aired August 1,198
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At 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 MTV was introduced to television, but only a few thousand people on a single cable system in northern New Jersey could see it. During this time, the first words that were spoken on MTV was by John Lack say the words, “Ladies and Gentlemen, rock and roll” Also during the launching of MTV it showed Neil Armstrong planting an MTV flag into the moon. Although MTV producers originally planed to use Neil Armstrong’s quote “One small step…” it was declined by Neil’s lawyers, so they switched the quote with a beeping noise. After the introduction MTV played the first music video by The Buggles called “Video killed the radio star.” After the first music video was shown the screen went blank because MTV employees were inserting a tape into the VCR to show the second music video by Pat Benatar with the song called “You better run.” From that day in August things just started to go up for the new and uprising television show MTV....
...MTV...
"Music Television" The main idea for MTV was to play music videos
ALL DAY EVERYDAYIt was aired August 1,198
The first words ever spoken on MTV were...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, rock and roll!"